OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	32
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	25
Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice	16
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	15
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	8
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	8
Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective	7
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	7
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	7
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	7
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	7
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	6
On consular internationalism	6
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	6
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	6
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	6
Francisco de Paula Santander and Haiti, 1824–5: Non-solidarity, neocolonialism, and the Haitian Revolution in the origins of Latin American international law	5
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	5
Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	5
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	5
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	5
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	4
Gaza Marine: The facts and the law – ADDENDUM	4
A forgotten proponent of a league of nations and his contributions to international law	4

LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	4
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	4
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	4
Bibliography	4
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	4
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	3
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	3
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’	3
Bibliography	3
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	3
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	3
Bibliography	3
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	3
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	3
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	3
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	2
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	2
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	2
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	2
Bibliography	2
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	2
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	2
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	2
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	2
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	2
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	2
Dokhtaran -e- khiyaban -e- Enghelab [The Girls of Revolution Street]	2
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	2
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	2
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	2
Bibliography	2
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	2
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
The demographics of victim participation at the International Criminal Court	1
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	1
The recognition of a right to be rescued at sea in international law	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1
Secondary objectives of the European Central Bank and economic growth: A human rights perspective	1
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
LJL volume 35 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Sinja Graf , The Humanity of Universal Crime. Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, Oxford University Press, 2021, 256pp, £47.99	1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1

Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	1
Bibliography	1
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis: The centrality of sovereignty in the EU approach to the protection of migrants’ rights	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1
Pricing and distribution in global value chain regulation	1
Responses of international legal academia to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
Going Open Access	1
The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in international law	1
Gravity of the crime and early release: A comparative study of early release practices in international tribunals	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	1
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	1
A critical analysis of the work of the ILC on ‘State Succession in Matters of State Responsibility’: A missed opportunity	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
Fin de siècle international law	1
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	1
Caroline E. Foster, Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence, Oxford University Press, 2021	1
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
The ECtHR’s suitability test in national security cases: Two models for balancing human rights and national security	1
International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea	1
International courts and sovereignty politics: Design, shielding, and reprisal at the African Court	1
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	1
Bibliography	1
Bibliography	1